MHP leader Bahçeli targets top court over Gergerlioğlu ruling

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Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Chair Devlet Bahçeli spoke at the Parliamentary Group meeting of his party today (July 6).

Bahçeli demanded that the summaries of proceedings seeking to lift the legislative immunity of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) MPs be voted at the General Assembly of the Parliament as soon as possible.

According to MHP's Bahçeli, "it is an indispensable condition for the law and political ethics that the MPs under suspicion due to their separatist and destructive statements that are at odds with the state, country and nation be stripped of their legislative immunity immediately."

'Since when has a traitor had rights?'

The leader of the MHP, which is in the People's Alliance with the ruling AKP, said that "the will of the nation is disregarded" when the MPs stripped of their legislative immunity and MP status are "accepted to the Parliament again from the back door in the guise of a rights violation."

Bahçeli then talked about Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, the dismissed Kocaeli MP of the HDP, for whom the Constitutional Court gave a ruling of right violation, but who has not yet been released from prison.

"In the individual application of HDP's Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, the Constitutional Court has concluded that there is a violation of rights and demanded his release," Bahçeli reminded the public.

Referring to main opposition CHP MP Enis Berberoğlu, who has acquired his MP status following a Constitutional Court ruling of rights violation, Devlet Bahçeli said, "So, as in the case of CHP's Berberoğlu, the way has been opened for Gergerlioğlu's return to the Parliament."

Devlet Bahçeli asked, "How is terror propaganda considered a violation of rights? Will you also give a ruling of rights violation for the bandits in the mountains? Does the Constitutional Court hear such cases from the cell houses or cave holes of terrorist organizations?"

Targeting both Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu and the Constitutional Court further, MHP Chair Devlet Bahçeli said, "What rights? What violation are you talking about? Since when has a traitor had a right?"

Support for Minister Soylu

Further in his speech, Bahçeli also expressed his support for Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu, who has been targeted by the allegations of Sedat Peker, who is accused of leading a criminal organization.

Indicating that "they are watching the attempted character assassinations, political lynching attempts and accusations reaching the point of atrocity with concern," MHP's Bahçeli "wanted it to be taken down in history that they never accept all these in any way at all."

"Who says that Mr. Soylu is alone? Who says that he doesn't have anyone," asked Bahçeli and answered his question as follows: "We are the MHP, we are the People's Alliance. We will be either on the side of unity and solidarity or will be dragged to a future full of tension and fight. We will either want the continuation of fraternity or risk grave devastation." (AS/SD)